The Pull List: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

After the strong start to Return of the King with the prologue in the last Daredevil, I could hardly wait for this week’s issue. Brubaker and Lark certainly didn’t disappoint with a tightly wound story that brings the Kingpin back from exile to join forces with Daredevil. Lady Bullseye and the Hand are going to have a fight on their hands and there are certain to be some interesting twists and turns with the uneasy alliance between Daredevil and the Kingpin along the way. Daredevil #117 was in good company on the shelves this week with lots of other new releases. Among my buys this week were:

Amazing Spider-Man #589
Battlestar Galactica: Cylon War #3
Captain America #48
Conan the Cimmerian #9
Daredevil #117
Fantastic Four #565
Incredible Hercules #127
Immortal Iron Fist #24
Indiana Jones: Tomb of the Gods #4 of 4
Justice League America #31
Mighty Avengers #23
Ms. Marvel #37
New Avengers #51
Oracle: The Cure #1
Secret Invasion Chronicles #1
Skaar Son of Hulk #9
Squadron Supreme #9
Thunderbolts #130
Umbrella Academy #5
War Machine #4
Wolverine: First Class #13
X-Infernus #4
X-Men: Sword of the Braddocks #1

Battlestar Galactica: Cylon War #3 was a nice fix after going cold turkey after the television series finale last week. There are still a lot of stories to be told in the BSG universe, so I hope that Dynamite keeps going with its titles. Conan the Cimmerian #9 was also great and the series is a winner month-after-month. An unexpected pleasure this week was X-Men: Sword of the Braddocks #1 by Chris Claremont. I’ve enjoyed his work on New Exiles and it’s fun to see him revisit the age-old conflict between the Braddocks and Slaymaster.

Check out the full list of the week's new releases at the Diamond Comics web site.